The Geekword Puzzle

Our Geekword Puzzle editor, Sam Bisbee, has now gone off to become the
Wizard-in-Residence to some lucky company - which means that he will no
longer have the time to create the GP. Great for them... less so for us,
although we certainly wish Sam the best of luck. Dear readers, if you know
someone who is a puzzlemaster (is that the right word?), please steer them
in our direction; the Geekword is something we'd hate to lose as a feature.
This is yet another way you can give back to the Linux community - not
something you'd normally expect from that skillset!
-- Ben Okopnik, Editor-in-Chief

Sam was born ('87) and raised in the Boston, MA area. His interest in all
things electronic was established early by his electrician father and database
designer mother. Teaching himself HTML and basic web design at the age of 10,
Sam has spiraled deeper into the confusion that is computer science and the
FOSS community. His first Linux install was Red Hat, which he installed on a
Pentium 233GHz i686 when he was about 13. He found his way into the computer
club in high school at Northfield Mount Hermon, a New England boarding school,
which was lovingly named GEECS for Electronics, Engineering, Computers, and
Science. This venue allowed him to share in and teach the Linux experience to
fellow students and teachers alike. Late in high school Sam was abducted into
the Open and Free Technology Community, had his first article published, and
became more involved in the FOSS community as a whole. After a year at
Boston University he decided the experience was not for him, striking out on
his own as a software developer and contractor.